North American sponsorship spending on marathons, triathlons and related events is expected to total $102.1 million in 2012, up 6.7 percent from $95.7 million in 2011, according to IEG, the world's leading authority on sponsorship.

Runners start Colorado's Pikes Peak Marathon at an elevation well over a mile high. And they just keep going up from there, climbing more than 7,000 feet on their way to the summit of Pikes Peak, which rises to a height of 14,115 feet. One of the World's Toughest...

The World Marathon Majors® (WMM) announced the addition of the Tokyo Marathon to the World Marathon Majors Series. The seventh Tokyo Marathon, which will be held on February 24, 2013, will be the first race in the 2013 - 2014 World Marathon Majors scoring period.

The Austin Runners Club (ARC) announced its sponsorship of Marathon High, a program led by Rogue Running with the express purpose of training local students, who would not otherwise participate in standard interscholastic sports, to complete the LIVESTRONG Austin Marathon this coming February